Mom Brain Is Real: What Science Found When You Became a Mom

🤍 Your brain changed for them. A free personal letter https://thebirthletter.com/your-lette... Made from your birth date and birth name. Ready in about 3 minutes – read or listen, no card needed. "Mom brain" is real – but it's not what you think. Here's what scientists found when they scanned mothers' brains before, during and after pregnancy: a real (small) dip in late pregnancy, changes in areas for social thinking, growth in the months after birth, and – decades later – brains that look slightly younger. CHAPTERS 0:00 Mom brain is real 0:37 Is "mom brain" real? 1:26 What happens in the brain during pregnancy 3:21 One mom, twenty-six scans 4:34 After the baby comes 5:30 Decades later 6:16 Matrescence 7:15 What this means for you today 8:16 You're a good mom Studies • Davies S.J. et al. 2018, Medical Journal of Australia – doi:10.5694/mja17.00131 • Hoekzema E. et al. 2017, Nature Neuroscience – doi:10.1038/nn.4458 • Pritschet L. et al. 2024, Nature Neuroscience – doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01741-0 • Kim P. et al. 2010, Behavioral Neuroscience – doi:10.1037/a0020884 • de Lange A-M.G. et al. 2019, PNAS – doi:10.1073/pnas.1910666116 • Orchard E.R. et al. 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences – doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.002 (matrescence – Dana Raphael) Not medical advice – for anything about your health or your child's, talk to your doctor. #mombrain #motherhood #matrescence